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PC Perspectivehttp://www.pcper.com/images/podcast-logo-600x600.pngenThe Xeon E5-2600 gets an Ivy Bridge EP upgradehttp://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Xeon-E5-2600-gets-Ivy-Bridge-EP-upgrade
<p>A second coming of the Xeon E5-2600 family uses the Ivy Bridge-EP architecture and will sport up to 12 cores, using 22nm Trigate technology.&nbsp; The three CPUs which will be arriving are each aimed at a separate market segment with different core counts and TDP.&nbsp; The lower power chips will sport either 4 or 6 cores and have a TDP between 40-80W with the same 15MB L3 cache as SB-EP.&nbsp; The second has a 25MB L3 cache, 6, 8 or 10 cores and TDPs ranging from 70-130W and uses the same interconnects as previously existed.&nbsp; The last is the beast with 12 cores, TDPs of 115-130W and three rings linking the cores and cache segments with a split memory controller.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/10/intel_ivy_bridge_xeon_e5_2600_v2_launch/">Check The Register for more info on the high powered end of IDF</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/General-Tech/Xeon-E5-2600-gets-Ivy-Bridge-EP-upgrade" class="inline-image-link" title="View: intel_xeon_e5_2600_v2_die_shot.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2013-09-11/intel_xeon_e5_2600_v2_die_shot.jpg" alt="intel_xeon_e5_2600_v2_die_shot.jpg" title="intel_xeon_e5_2600_v2_die_shot.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="494" height="391" /></a></div></p>
<blockquote><p>&quot;Companies with workloads that like to ride on lots of threads and cores are going to be able to get a lot more bang for a two-socket box thanks to the launch of the &quot;Ivy Bridge-EP&quot; Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors by Intel.&quot;</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Xeon-E5-2600-gets-Ivy-Bridge-EP-upgrade" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Xeon-E5-2600-gets-Ivy-Bridge-EP-upgrade#commentsGeneral Techidf 2013Ivy Bridge-EPxeonxeon E5-2600 v2Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:30:29 +0000Jeremy Hellstrom58409 at http://www.pcper.comDell Unveils New T3610, T5610, and T7610 Workstationshttp://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Dell-Unveils-New-T3610-T5610-and-T7610-Workstations
<p>Along with the release of <a href="http://www.pcper.com/news/Systems/Dell-Introduces-Powerful-New-M4800-and-M6800-Mobile-Workstations">new mobile workstations</a>, Dell announced three new desktop workstations. Specifically, Dell is launching the T3610, T5610, and T7610 PC workstations under its Precision series. The new systems reside in redesigned cases with improved cable management, removable power supplies (tool-less, removable by sliding out from rear panel), and in the case of the T7610 removable hard drives. All of the new Precision workstations have been outfitted with Intel&#39;s latest <a href="http://www.pcper.com/category/tags/ivy-bridge-ep">Ivy Bridge-EP</a> based Xeon processors, ECC memory, workstation-class graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA, Xeon Phi accelerator card options, LSI hardware RAID controllers, and updated software solutions from Intel and Dell.</p>
<p><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/General-Tech/Dell-Unveils-New-T3610-T5610-and-T7610-Workstations" class="inline-image-link" title="View: Dell Precision T3610 T5610 T7610.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2013-09-07/Dell%20Precision%20T3610%20T5610%20T7610.jpg" alt="Dell Precision T3610 T5610 T7610.jpg" title="Dell Precision T3610 T5610 T7610.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="410" /></a></div></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><em>The new Precision workstations side-by-side. From left to right: T3610, T5610, and T7610.</em></p>
<p>Dell&#39;s Precision T3610 is a the mid-tower system of the group powered by single socket Xeon E5-2600 v2 hardware that further supports up to 128GB DDR3 ECC memory, two graphics cards, three 3.5&rdquo; hard drives, and four 2.5&rdquo; SSDs.</p>
<p><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/General-Tech/Dell-Unveils-New-T3610-T5610-and-T7610-Workstations" class="inline-image-link" title="View: Dell Precision T3610 Single Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2013-09-07/Dell%20Precision%20T3610%20Single%20Xeon%20Ivy%20Bridge-EP%20Workstation.jpg" alt="Dell Precision T3610 Single Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg" title="Dell Precision T3610 Single Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="332" /></a></div></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><em>The Precision T3610, a new single socket, mid-range workstation.</em></p>
<p>The Precision T5610 ups the ante to a dual socket IVB-EP processor system that can be configured with up to 128GB DDR3 ECC memory, two AMD FirePro or NVIDIA Quadro (e.g. Quadro K5000) graphics cards, a Tesla K20C accelerator card, three 3.5&rdquo; hard drives, and four 2.5&rdquo; solid state drives.</p>
<p>Finally, the T7610 workstation supports dual Intel Ivy Bridge-EP Xeon E5-2600 v2 series processors (up to 24 cores per system), up to 512GB DDR3 ECC memory, three graphics cards (including two NVIDIA <a href="http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Launches-Flagship-Quadro-K6000-Graphics-Card-Visual-Computing-Professiona">Quadro K6000 cards</a>), four 3.5&rdquo; hard drives, and eight 2.5&rdquo; SSDs.</p>
<p><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/General-Tech/Dell-Unveils-New-T3610-T5610-and-T7610-Workstations" class="inline-image-link" title="View: Dell Precision T5610 Dual Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2013-09-07/Dell%20Precision%20T5610%20Dual%20Xeon%20Ivy%20Bridge-EP%20Workstation.jpg" alt="Dell Precision T5610 Dual Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg" title="Dell Precision T5610 Dual Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="313" /></a></div></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><em>Dell&#39;s Precision T5610 dual socket workstation.</em></p>
<p>The new Precision workstations can also be configured with an Intel Xeon Phi 3120A accelerator card in lieu of a Tesla card. The choice will mainly depend on the applications being used and the development resources and expertise available. Both options are designed to accelerate highly parallel workloads in applications that have been compiled to support them. Further, users can add an LSI hardware RAID card with 1GB of onboard memory to the systems. Dell further offers a Micron P320h PCI-E SSD that, while not bootable, offers up 350GB of high performance storage that excels at high sequential reads and writes.</p>
<p>On the software front, Dell is including the Dell Precision Performance Optimizer and the Intel Cache Acceleration Software. The former automatically configures and optimizes the workstation for specific applications based on profiles that are reportedly regularly updated. The other bit of software works to optimize systems that use both hard drives and SSDs with the SSDs as a cache for the mechanical storage. The Intel Cache Acceleration Software configures the caching algorithms to favor caching very large files on the solid state storage. It is a different approach to consumer caching strategies, but one that works well with businesses that use these workstations to process large data sets.</p>
<p><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/General-Tech/Dell-Unveils-New-T3610-T5610-and-T7610-Workstations" class="inline-image-link" title="View: Dell Precision T7610 Dual Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2013-09-07/Dell%20Precision%20T7610%20Dual%20Xeon%20Ivy%20Bridge-EP%20Workstation.jpg" alt="Dell Precision T7610 Dual Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg" title="Dell Precision T7610 Dual Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP Workstation.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="293" /></a></div></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><em>The Dell Precision T7610 workstation.</em></p>
<p>The Dell workstations are aimed at businesses doing scientific analysis, professional engineering, and complex 3D modeling. The T7610 in particular is aimed at the oil and gas industry for use in simulations and modeling as companies search for new oil deposits.</p>
<p>All three systems will be available for purchase worldwide beginning September 12th. Some of the options, such as 512GB of ECC and the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 on the T7610 will not be available until next month, however. The T3610 has a starting price of $1,099 while the T5610 and T7610 have starting prices of $2,729 and $3,059 respectively.</p>
<p><em>What are your thoughts on Dell&#39;s new mid-tower workstations?</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Dell-Unveils-New-T3610-T5610-and-T7610-Workstations" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Dell-Unveils-New-T3610-T5610-and-T7610-Workstations#commentsGeneral TechSystemsdellfireproIvy Bridge-EPk6000LSImicronquadroworkstationXeon PhiMon, 09 Sep 2013 13:00:37 +0000Tim Verry58373 at http://www.pcper.comIntel Planning 10-core Xeon E5-2600 V2 Ivy Bridge-EP CPUhttp://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Intel-Planning-10-core-Xeon-E5-2600-V2-Ivy-Bridge-EP-CPU
<p>A recently <a href="http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/10_core_xeon_e5_2600_v2_ivy_bridge_ep_processor_info_surfaces.html">leaked slide</a> reveals one of Intel&rsquo;s upcoming Xeon-branded server chips coming in Q3 2013. The Xeon E5-2600 V2 is an Ivy Bridge-EP processor and will be compatible with motherboards featuring the LGA 2011 socket.</p>
<p class="rtecenter" style=""><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/Processors/Intel-Planning-10-core-Xeon-E5-2600-V2-Ivy-Bridge-EP-CPU" class="inline-image-link" title="View: Intel-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Launch-Roadmap.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2012-10-16/Intel-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Launch-Roadmap.jpg" alt="Intel-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Launch-Roadmap.jpg" title="Intel-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Launch-Roadmap.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="450" /></a></div></p>
<p>The Xeon E5-2600 V2 in particular has a 70W TDP (thermal design power) rating while the highest-end Ivy Bridge-EP CPUs will have TDPs of up to 130W. The E5-2600 V2 has 10 physical cores, and with HyperThreading it can handle a maximum of 20 threads. Each physical core has access to 256KB L2 cache and the chip has a total of 30MB L3 cache. Further, this (and other) Ivy Bridge-EP processor will support up to 1866MHz DDR3 system RAM.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the Xeon E5-2600 V2 is merely the middle of the road part for Intel. The company will be releasing processors that are even higher-end than this one. They will have up to 12 physical cores which means up to 24 threads. And paired with Intel&#39;s 22nm manufacturing process and 3D transistors, these chips will fit right into workstations and server rooms.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Intel-Planning-10-core-Xeon-E5-2600-V2-Ivy-Bridge-EP-CPU" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Intel-Planning-10-core-Xeon-E5-2600-V2-Ivy-Bridge-EP-CPU#commentsProcessors22nmIntelIvy Bridge-EPlga 2011xeon E5-2600 v2Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:48:48 +0000Tim Verry55574 at http://www.pcper.com